Word: tribalized
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...Festival idea belongs to everyone and has always been in the air, in the form of fairs, tribal gatherings, country "bees," hoe-downs, least days, and community celebrations of all kinds. The connection for the land was made by a number of persons who had been gathering together around a Youth Culture and Politics group organized by students in the fall within the Kennedy Institute's seminar program. Part of the idea was to provide a space where people from all parts of the community could come together in mutual celebration of what is most vital in their lives...
...other hand, there is something so embarrassingly absurd about the notion of purging the nation of blacks that it seems hardly a product of thought at all. It is more like a primitive reflex, a throwback to the dim past of tribal experience, which we rationalize and try to make respectable by dressing it up in the gaudy and highly questionable trappings of what we call the "concept of race." Yet, despite its absurdity, the fantasy of a blackless America continues to turn up. It is a fantasy born not merely of racism but of petulance, of exasperation, of moral...
Prophets and Poets. Also from Africa came a tribal tradition of the poet as wiseman and prophet, interpreter of the past and seer of the future. According to Poet Nikki Giovanni: "There is no difference between the warrior, the poet, and the people. Like Stokely is a poet and so is Rap Brown...
...gospel singers to blues singers, to Langston Hughes, who dignified the street language of the blacks and read his poems wherever he could find an audience, even in bars. Today's black poets often chant their poetry in lofts, churches and schools, as if they were still tribal prophets. David Henderson's new book, De Mayor of Harlem, is full of the language of incantation, uniting fragments of history and contemporary impression as if in a visionary state of mind...
...hours and $72.47 spent at the Alpha Beta. 2 cases of dog food, a 75 pound sack of Keeble she had struggled out to Sam's TR herself. Inorganic vegetables, spices, a 5 pound bag of peanuts. More, much more. She knew the checkout boy-a novice at the Tribal hunting grounds, or from a novena at Alyosha's-and he had asked her, "Hey lovely one, you sure when you come down you're going to want all this stuff...